Brahms: Variations on a theme of Haydn
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major
Wolf: Italian Serenade
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 ‘Italian’

Olari Elts: conductor; Jean-Guihen Queyras: cello; Jane Atkins: viola

Many concerts this season take a pair of ideas and play them off against each other to achieve as satisfying a musical menu as you could wish for. Here, Brahms plays Haydn – the grand master of variation form – at his own game before we hear Haydn’s long lost cello concerto. Then two great German composers travel south for a taste of Italian song and dance.

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